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UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES Til-HWJIEY, OF GARDNER. MASSACHUSETTS. ASSIGNOR lO SIMPLEX TIME RECORDER COMPANY, OI" GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION Ol" MASSA- CHUSETTS.

WORKMANS TIME-RECORDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1909.

Application filed August 31, 1908. Serial No. 461,070.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES T. HAWLEY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Gardner, county of llorcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in lVorkmens Time-Recorders, of which the following description, in connection With the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to apparatus for recording on a suitable card or other check the actual time of a workman athis lace of employment, each employee having is indivldual card, which in practice is used for one Week, although if desired any other suitable 'fixed period of time may be selected.

In many factories or other business concerns there are lixed hours for beginning and ending a days work, with a noon )eriod having liXed limits. The record o each employee, determining as it does his compensation for a given period, must 4be so made that tardiness in beginning work, either in the morning or at the return after noon will be indicated, as well as absences for longer or shorter periods during regular work hours, and if he quits work before the proper time a record thereof must also be made, in order that proper deductions may be made for lost time. Various forms of apparatus have been devised with such objects in view, the majority of which indicate on the card or other check the exact time at which the record is made, so that at the end of a given period, say a week, the lost time is figured u from a given card, deducted from the tull time for that period, and the compensation for the week is thereby determined. In United States Patent No. 12761 reissued to me March 10, 1908, such an apparatus is shown and described, the a paratus being of the type wherein the Worliman, by a selective movement, sets the apparatus in readiness to make the proper in or out7 record on the card, and thereupon actuates the apparatus to make the record.

That apparatus 1s so arranged that records for each day are made in vertical columns on the card, the columns being arranged in parallelism in the sequence of the'days of the week, and the selective movement by the workman effects the proper position of the card, in the card receiver or guide, relatively to the stamping or recording instrumentality A daily change, in the relative position of the card and said instrumentalityr which occurs once in every twenty-four hours, is governed by periodically changing means, and while said means is rendered operative by the employee who first o crates the apparatus after such a periodic c range the employees have no control thereover. So, too, the card receiver is fixed, in said patent, and the time recording instrumentality is movable bodily relatively thereto, by the periodically changing means.

In another United States Patent No. 842132 granted to Blair January 22, 1907, for a recording apparatus the actual time is not given for the in and out records, but time out, t'. e., all lost time, is recorded as so many minutes, or so many hours and fractions thereof, whereby the collation of the matter on a given card is easily and quickly effected at the end of a given period, say one week. The Blair a paratus is so constructed and arranged tliat when the employee is on time, either when beginning or stopping work, the record made on his card is an arbitrary character.

My present invention is in a measure a combination of certain principles involved in both of the patents referred to, with various novel features of construction, operation and arrangement not present in veither of the specified mechanisms. Herein thea )para tus is arranged to make a clean record, y the use of an arbitrary character, whenever the employee begins and ends his Work without lost time, and the lost time Vis recorded as a certain denite period, in minutes, or hours and minutes, as the case may be, as in Blair, the columns for successive days of the week being arranged in parallelism transversely of the card, the records for any given day being made successively in its proper horizontal space.

Each employee must see that the apparatus is in'readiness to make the proper in or out record on his card, and ifit is notin such condition he must properly set it by a -selective movement before he operates it, so

it will be manifest that thc positions of the different records on the card, for a given day, are under the control of the employee to the extent indicated.

The change in the position of the card in the card receiver or guide from day to day is herein effected manually and in practice by first operates the a parabut I have devise timecontrolled means to revent the o eration of the apparatus to m re any recor whatever unless the proper positioning of the card for a particular day hasbeen effected manually. baid time controlled means operates automatically to change or set periodically a controlling member as for instance at midnight every twenty-four hours, and when such controlling member is set the a paratus can be operated to make a record on y after the card positioning means has been brought into proper relation with the recording instrumentality. That is, if at midnight on Monday, for instance,

the employee who tus on a new day,

Tuesday, no record whatever can be made until the manually operated card positioning means has been actuated to bring it into such relation with the recording instrumentality that all records for the period between midnight Monday and midnight Tuesday will be made on the Tuesday space on the card. This prevents an employee from making a record on his card until the apparatus has been set for the current day. I have also provided means to prevent the making of records for morning hours in afternoon hours, and vice versa, thusobviating any opportunity for an employee to absent himself during one part of the day and get a record therefor during another part of the day.

As 1t is convenient to have means for recording eXtra or overtime I have provided devices for making such records, in actual time, the cards to be used in the apparatus having proper vertical columns, for such eX- tra time as well as vthose for the different in and out records. The selective device, under the control of the employee, causes the record to be printed or stam ed on the card by a particu ar set of recor ing or printing members, the` printing or recording instrumentality being composed of aplurality of such sets. I have also so constructed the apparatus embodying my present invention that the platen is subjected to a sharp hammer-blow at the instant the record is made, whereby a clear and well defined impression is made upon the card.

These and various novelfeatures of my ini Y vention will be fully described in the vsubjoined ,55

specification and particularly pointed out in t e following claims. y

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a recording `apparatus embodying my present invention,

,Y the inclosing and protective casing for the major portion of the working parts showing the face or dial of the time movement or clock, and said casing is the connection between such time movement and other parts of the mechanism; Fig. 2 'is a face view of one of the individual cards or checks to be used in connection with the apthe controlling member has been set automatically for the following day,v

similar view of the set .time movement broken out to show the spring motor for advancing the'hour and paratus embodied herein; Fig. 3 is an eny arged detail showing a'portion of the frontk of the frame with the guide or indicator to aid the employee when he makes a selective movement to place the apparatus in readiness to operate, the front of the support .for the group of type wheels constitutmg the recording or printing instrumentality, and a portion of the type-wheels; Fig. 4 is an enar ed front elevation of the mechanism which is located in the lower part of the cas-l ing, the greater part of said mechanism being wholly inclosed and concealed by the casing, as shown in Fig. 1, and the greater part of the recording instrumentality is omitted to avoid confusion; Fig. 5 is a top pian view of the mechanism illustrated in Fig. 4 but with the entire recording instrumentality, i. e. the sets of type-wheels, omitted; Fig. 6 is a lefthand side elevation of the mechanism, shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and the recording instrumentality is indicated by acircle, as details thereof are shown in other figures. Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional detail on the line 7-7, Fig. 5, looking toward the right, showing the locking means for the recording instrumentality and a portion of the mechanism for impressing upon the card a daily check mark or indication; Fig. 8 is a right hand side elevation of the platen-operating mechanism and the means for moving the active typewheels into printing position; Fig. 9 is a detail of a portion of the platen-operating mechanism in osition just about to release the hammer; ig. 10 is a side elevation, partly broken out, of one of the hour and minute out type-wheel sets, arranged in juXta and s owing a part of the actuating means for moving the selected set of printing members up to the printing tpoint; Fig. 11 is a for the in records, either morning or noon, as these sets are alike; Fig. 12 is ra detail of a portion of one of the hour wheels or members, to be referred to; Fig. 13 is a sectional detail on the line' 13-13, Fig. 4,' looking to the right, 'of a part of the means for adjusting or setting by hand the automatic mechanism Vwltlich changes periodically the position of the controlling member of the day to day positioning v means for the card; Fig. 14 is a detail on the line 14-14, Fig. 4, looking" vtoward the left, of a let-off forming part of the mechanism which shifts automatically the stop preventing morning records in the afternoon, and viceversa; Fig. 15 is a sectional `deta'l at the left of line 15'15, Fig. 4, of the let-off device operated by the or clock, and which controls and also showing minute marking members,

the means by which the change ofthe hour members at the end of each hour is assisted and accelerated; Fig. 16 is an enlarged front printing members or face view of the several hour marking wheels or members and portions of the cooperating minute marking members, to show the relative position of the type or marking portions at a given time, herein taken as 12.15 p. m. Fig. 17 is a rear elevation of the card guide or receiver and the means for positioning the card vertically therein to correspond to the proper day of the week, the shifting stop for the prevention of false morning and afternoon records being also shown; Fig. 18 is a right-hand side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 17, and with a )ortion of the mechanism in section on the ine 18-18, Fig. 17; Fig. 19 is a detail in side elevation of the member which must be set manually in proper relation to the controlling member of the day to day positioning means before the apparatus can be operated to make a record, with the means for retract- .ing said manually set member after each record is made. Fig. 2O is a detail of. the esca-pement for the minute marking members; Fig. 21 is a detail, partly in section, of the escapement for the periodically changing day shifting means, and for shifting the safety sto Fig. 22 is a detail in front elevation o the hand setting or adjusting means shown in Figs. 4 and 13.

The casing 1, Fig. 1 is of suitable size and shape to contain the operative parts of the mechanism and is provided with a suitable time movementor clock with exposed dial and hands,`as is common in recording apparatus, the lower part of the casing having an opening 2 flanked by wings 3, by which the employees card or other check is introduced to the communicating receiver or guide' within the casing and in which the card is supported when the record is made thereon.

A horizontal shelf or jog 4 in the casing has a sight opening indicated by dotted lines at 5, to permit an indicator showing` the day of the week to be seen from'the exterior at an time.

pon the central portion of the shelf is exposed a metallic head 6 in practice fiXedly secured to lthe main framework of the mechanism7 said head having an elongated guideway or slot 7 and above it, upon the lop of the head 6 as herein shown, a series of disks or buttonsS is mounted. These disks or buttons are distinctly marked, as shown in Fig. 5, to clearl T indicate to the workman which one he shou d select for a given period of the day before he operates the apparatus to make a record, and the markings herein shown, beginning at the left, Fig. 5, are as folloWsz-Morn in, f Noon out, HNoon in, Night out, Extra in, uExtra out,

vthe last two being used for overtime work,

and the particular number, notation on, and shape or form of these indices may be varied accordmg to c1rcumstances.

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into morning' and afternoon hours, and inasmuch as the apparatus herein described rer ords the actual amount of time lost, when such a record is proper, it will be manifest that the indices before mentioned, including those for overtime, cover substantially all practical cases.

Beneath cach index S the head has an opening 9, said openings being arranged in a curved line below and parallel to the slot 7, anda series of larger, corresponding openings 10 is made in the front of the casing below the shelf. 4, Fig. 1, for a purpose to be disclosed hereafter.

The record card or check to be used is shown in Fig. 2, it having at its upper end a suitable heading for the name or number of thc employee, and a date line, and at the lower end the card is provided with blank spaces for the summation of full, lost, net and overtime, and for totals as to wages and hours, to assist in the collation of the records marked upon the body of the card. The body of the card is divided by horizontal lines to present a series of transverse spaces corresponding t-o the days of the week, and if desired the abbreviation of each day may be printed at the end of each space reading dovmward, as M. T. lV., etc., though this is a matter of choice. By means of vertical rulings the body of the card is divided into a series of vertical columns, the one at the. left being headed Day while the headings of the succeeding columns correspond to the indices on the head 6, beginning Morn in, the record face of the card, however, being turned awa i from the employee when he inserts it in t e opening 2.

As will appear hereinafter the time records of each employee for a given day are im pressed or printed in the horizontal space on the card corresponding to such dav,and the particular period ol' the day in which a record is made is determined by a selective movement of a portion of the apparatus by the employee, as will be explained. The rela tive position of the card and the recording instrumentality vertically, for the change from day to day, is determined automatically by the positioning of a controlling member, but the actual change in the )osition of the card is effected when an employee positions pro erly a device coperating with the contro ling member, and if such device is not so positioned no record whatever can be made.

The arbor of the minute hand of the time movement has a pinion 11 meshing 'with a pinion12 on a iiexible shaft 13, Fig. 1, attached at its lower end to the shaft of and driving a gear 14- which meshes with a pinion 15 fast on a gear 16, Figs. 4, 5 and 15, on a horizontal spindle rotatably mounted on parallel plates 17 secured to the main Said gear 16 drives a gear 18 Working days are almost universally divided l having an attached pinion 19 and rotatable hng 1n on a short shaft 20, rotatably mounted in the plate 17 and carrying at lts inner end a' ries a let-off paWl 25, its pivot 26, Fig. 20,

having also fast on it a toothed segment 27 meshing with the pinion 19, the pawl `cooperating with the Wheel 23, a leaf-spring 28 on the pawl-carrier acting upon the segment to normally hold the pawl in engagement with the escapement wheel, .as in Fig. 20.

When the time movement advances the pinion 19 in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 20, the segment and pawl are rocked on the pivot 26 to throw the pawl out of engagement with a tooth of the wheel 23, and the shaft 20- and paWl-carrier 24 advance one tooth, the shaft being driven by a spring motor, as-will be described. The-advance is limited to a single tooth because when released the shaft turns faster than the 'pinion 19, and as a result the segment 27 is swung back to the relative position shown in Fig. 20, bringing the awl 25 into engagement with the next tootii of the wheel 23, the teeth of the segment rolling over the relatively stationary pinion 19, vthe spring 28 assisting the movement. This let-off or releasing device is operated by the time movement, with but very little eort, and serves to permit a spring motor to actuate intermittingly other portions of the a paratus, so that the heavy Work is effected y the motor but controlled by the time movement. v

Referring to F ig. 7 the large double circle 29 indicated by dotted lines represents a typical clock-spring motor, wound up by a suitable key applied to the outer end of the spindle 30, the master gear of the motor driving a pinion 31 and attached gear 32, the latter actuating pinion 33 and small gear 34 in mesh with a gear 35 fast on a spindle 36. Said spindle has fast on it a gear 3.7 which meshes with a pinion 38 fast on the shaft 20, the train of gears intermediate the motor 29 and the said shaft operating the latter with the requisite power and at the desired speed whenever the time-controlled let-off' device permits, the upper portion of the train of gears being shown in Fig. 4.

The intermittent rotation of the shaft 20 is employed to effect the advance of the several minute marking members or type wheels of the plurality of groups or sets of marking members which in the present invention constitute the printing or recording instrument-ality. Before describing this instrumentality it may be stated that the main supporting frame-work for the operative parts of the apparatus com rises a base plate 39, right and left hand s eleton sides 40, 41,'and

a heavy cross-brace 42 at the front, all firmly and rigidly connected, mounted on the posts 43 and 44 erected on the cross-brace, a tie-rod 45 connecting the sides at the back of the frame, near the top thereof.

The inner one of the plates 17 sustains a horizontal extension 46 having bosses 47 opposite horizontal rods 48 fixedly mounted in the frame side 41, said rods at their inner end carrying cou ling sleeves 49, see Fig. 5, and a suspenderar 50 is mounted in each sleeve 49 and the opposite boss 47, and secured in place by suitable set-screws, as shown, the sleeves being fixed on the rods 48 by setscreWs 51. a

The front suspender-bar is shown in Fig. 4 partly broken out at its threaded fportion 52, while in Fig. 5 the extremities o both bars are shown, the bars being rigidly connected by tie-plates 53, Fig. 3, six being herein shown, spaced apart by collars 54 and clamped on the suspender-bars by suitable nuts 5,5. By loosening the sleeves 49 and the several set-screws the rigidly-connected suspender-bars and everything suspended therefrom, viz: the printing or recording instrumentality, can be removed bodily without disturbing the rest of the apparatus, a great convenience when any changes, corrections or repairs have to be made to said instrumentality.

The tie-plates support a transmitting shaft 56, see dotted lines Fig. 5, having fast upon it a series of six like gears 57, and a radially slotted arm 58 to receive the coupling pin22 on the ratchet 21 previously referred to, whereby the shafts 20 and 56 are detachably cou led to be rotated together, the coupling ena ling the printing instrumentality to be readily disconnected from the motor train when necessary. Each of the six gears 57 meshes with and drives a large gear 59 attached to one of the minute type-wheels or printing members 60 of each printing device or set, it being understood that herein there is one of such rinting sets corresponding to each 'of the in exes 8.

The minute-marking members or wheels 60 are all alike and each has on its pberiphery a series of number-types, the num ers running from 1 to 59 inclusive, and instead of zero, said members being rotated in unison, and intermittingly, from the shaft 20 through the transmitter shaft 56 and the gearing, at minute intervals, the connections between the time movement and the releasing device o r let-off for shaft 20 being arranged to let off the latter at the end of each minute, the gears in other words each advance of an hourmarking member is effected upon each com- 1 plete revolution of its minute-marking member.

The printing sets are mounted on swmg- Y ing-carriers 61 fulcrumed on the tie-plates 53 and depending therefrom, each carrier having a rearward extension 62 provided with cam faces 63, 64, Figs. 10 and 11, the faces 64 being normally held against the tie-rod 45 by i springs 65, and when the print-ing sets are in l such normal position the printing faces there- .f of are inoperative. To cause any set to make a record it must be moved forward i bodily into printing position, by actuating means to be described and common to all the printing sets, but coperating with one only at a time, determined by a selective movel ment of a part of the apparatus under thel control of the employee.

Referringito Fig. 16 it willbe seen that l while the numbers on the minute-marking I members 60, are the same said members are not set alike, angularly, the order being reversed on the second and fourth of such members, from the right, which no'on out and night out rinting sets. This is due to the fact that Vin t is apparatus the actual time lost is recorded, as inthe Blair patent, the in devices recording, at the instant thev record is made, the time which has ela sed between the time of recording and tflie point of time at which an arbitrary character would have been printed, while the out devices print the total time from the instant of printing'up to the time of termination of the morning or afternoon hours of labor. As before stated, this does not apply to the eXtra or overtime print? ing devices, as they record actual time, the hour-marking members E and E', Fig. 16, having two series of numbers thereon from 1 to 12 each, one series being distinguished by an underl ing dash, or otherwise, these meinbers or w reels. making one complete revolution every twenty-four' hours, and being driven from their' corres on`ding minutemarking vmembers as will e explained. It will 'be remembered that full time is herein indicated by an arbitrary character, for instance and nothing else, b the same printing members which record ost time.

Now consider the noon out set (in which the numbers on both hour and minute members are constantly decreasing) at 10.58 a. m. lf a record is then made it will be 1.02, the time lost, at 10.59 the 'record will be 1.01, at 11.00 the record will be 1 the dash being `used instead of 00, and at 11.01 the record will be 59, that is 59 minutes lost. The hour member thus changes and mustchange at 11.01 and it cannot change at 1 1.00, hence at 11.58 we will get a record of 2; at 11.59 we get 1, and at 12 we get so that the desired arbitrary character belong to 1 c'lu( ing 1.01 (at 10.59 a. m.).

ft will not be made till 12.01. T his is a rather serious objection, inasmuch as a large number of full time records would naturali Y be made between 12.00 and 12.01 and I rave provided means herein to overcome it.' To this end I make the out wheels N and N',

fment, by changing twice on consecutive minutes, between 59 and and between andl 1.

Considering the noon out set, for example, the a paratus will print with the lowermost 1 on member N lost time records ran ing from 1.59 (at 10.01 a. m. to and in- On the change from 10.59 to 11.00 the first advance of member N will bring the uppermost 1 thereon into position, to print- 1 at 11 oclock, if a record be made, and on change to 11.01 the second advance of member N will be effected, so that at 11.01 the noon out set will print 59, the result being the same as heretofore, and will continue in regular order until 11.59 when the record will be 1. Inasmuch, however, as the is not duplicated on member Nthe first advance of said member between 11.59 and 12.00 noon the will change to it, and the second advance between 12.00 and 12.01 positions the second Thereby 1 have the arbitrary character in position to print from 12.00 to 12.59, as desired, and with very little extra mechanism, as will a ear the saine reasonin and o eration a lying tothe ni ht out set of )rintin niliinbers. The forefoing is based ulpon thi; assum tion that quitting time is 12.00 noon, but t 1e conditions and the arrangement would of course be the same for any other quitting time, as 12.15, 12.30, 4.45, etc. Manifestly a similar correction' could be made for the in records if desired, so as4 to print the it, instead of between 7.00 and 7.01, but as the employees getting such records are late as a matter of fact, though less than one full minute, there is no object in making the correction, for a record between 7.00 and 7.01 is not strictly entitled to the, while arecord between 12.00 and 12.01 is absolutely entitled to have such character.

The numbers run from 1 to 7, as that suffices for any morning or afternoon period, and the space between the twoends of the series is filled in by a blank nx, which is higher than the number types and makes a smudge only on the card if the out printing set is operated after the characters have been advanced beyond the printing point. The characters it., also, are slightly igher than any of the other type on. the wheels N, N to prevent the type on the corresponding minute Wheels from making any im ression Whatever when full time recor s are made.

The advance of the hour members by their' corresponding minute members will now be descri ed, and referring 'to Fig. 10 the minute member 60 is provided with two tappets 66, so positioned and located that they will one after anotlier engagetwo successive teeth of a star-wheel 67 fast on a gear 68 rotatably mounted on an extension of the car rier 61, said gear meshing with a larger gear 69 fast on the hour-marking member N or N', as the case may be. On each revolution of the wheel or member 60 the tappets 66 Will thus cause two successive advances or steps of the hour member, to bring thetvvo `arbitrary characters successively into printing position at the proper time to make the desired clean record, as described, the ears 68, 69 providing for the required anguar movement of the hour member at each advance, remembering that the members N, N make one complete revolution every twelve hours, or twice in each complete daily period of twenty-four hours. Any desired means may be used for preventing over-running of the members N, N and to hold them in proper position for making a record, and herein I have shown a spring-controlled detent 70 co erating with the star-wheel 67 and pivoter at 71 on the carrier 61, the dctent at its rear end being bent down and provided with a beveled tooth 72, Fig. 10, which travels upon an annulus 73 affixedl to the minute member 60, a'double notch 74 being made in the "annulus at such a point that when the tappets 66 impart the two succes sive advances to the hour member the tooth 72 will dip into the double notch and thereby cause the detent 70 to release two teeth of the star-wheel. The annulus thus locks the detent in engagement .with the star-wheel until the hourly change is to be effected, and eft which controls the detent.

fects the relooking immediately thereafter. Now, inasmuch as the extra hour members or wheels E and E have two sets of numbers 1 to 12, and make one complete revolution every twenty-four hours the said members are advanced hourly by means similar to theconstruction shown in Fig. 10, except that there is but one tappet, and one releasing notch in the locking ring or annulus The morning in and noon in hour members M and NX, Figs 16, are relatively small, as each must be provided with a relatively small series of numbers, and 'furthermore each one is in operation for only a portion of each days working hours, and said members have each the full time character if and the in additionl to the blank type-face v myx, the latter andl the character being higher than the rest of the type, for reasons previously given.

Referring to Fig. 1 1 the said hour members are rotatably mounted, each on a part of the carrier 61 of that printing set, and a starwheel 76 is secured to the heur member, a spring-controlled detent 77 normally coperating with the star-wheelto lock it from rotation. The detent is fulcrumed on the carrier at 78 and has connected with it a beveled tooth 79 cooperating with the locking ringv 80 rotatable with the minute member 60 and notched at 81, a tappet 82 being so positioned relative to the notch that when the tappet engages the star-wheel and advances it one step, at the end of each hour, the tooth 79 will move into the notch and thereby' permit the detent to momentarily release the star-wheel.

The minute members of the several printing sets are intermittingly advanced in unison through the shafts 20 and 56 at each release of the motor, as described, and each hour member is intermittingly advanced by its own co erating minute member, so when thehour y changes occur a little extra work is placed upon the motor and the shafts 20 and 56, and in order to prevent any sluggish operation at such changes I provide an accelerator', best shown in Fig` 15, as a cam 83 on the shaft 36 and cooperating with a swinging follower 84 held against the cam by a iirm spring S5.

The rotation of the cam up to its high point 86 acts through the follower 84 to gradually stretch the spring 85, and the high point passes the follower as the hour change is to be made. The cam is so arranged that thereupon, for a period of about four ininutes, the spring acts through'the follower and the cam to putpressure on the shaft 36 and turn it forwardfassisting the motor spring in its action upon therecording instrumentality at whatma'yybe termed the peak of the load, thisass'istance being effective because the devices referred to are so near the escapement end of the train of gearing. Whenever the swinging carrier sustaining any one of the printing sets is moved forward the printing members of that set will be brought into position to make a record.,l i i A horizontalrack 87 .is slidably 'mounted on a tiebar88 between the frame sides 41 and suitable supporting bearings on the base plate 39. The rack carries an upright standard 97, see Fig. 10, on which is horizontallyr pivoted a transmitting block 98, held against a rocker bar 99 by means of a light spring 100, said rocker bar extending across the frame and being supported on bell cranks 101, 102, i'ulcrumcd on the frame sides 41 and 40 respectively. The block 98 is movable longitudinally along the rocker-bar and between the latter and the cam faces 63 of the several swinging carriers which suspend the printing sets, the movement o'f the rack 1n one or the other direction serving to interpose the block between the rocker-bar 99 and some particular one of the cam faces 63, so that if the rocker-bar is swung forward, it will act through the block to swing that particular printing set forward .into position to make a record.

The longitudinal movement of the rack is effected by the employee by mechanism now to be described. The base plate 39 has ears 103 see Figs. 6 and 18 near its front which form bearings for a sleeve 104, held i'rom longitudinal movement by a collar 105 xed on the sleeve between the ears, said collar having opposite limiting stops 106 best shown in Fig. '4. The rear' end of the collar has fixed to-it a gear 107, clearly shown in Fig.' 18 which meshes with a pinion 108 on the shaft 96, so that by oscillatory movement of the sleeve the shafts 96 and 91 are rotated and the gear 90 is revolved to shift the rack to the rightor left an amount determined by angular movement of the sleeve 105. The 'latter has pinned to. its front end extended beyond the casing the hub 109 of an upturned arm 110 having its upper end bifurcated to present ears 111, Fig. 4, between which is pivoted the actuating handle 112, the fulcruni 113 of the latter being at right angles to the sleeve 104, so that the handle has an angular movement about the sleeve as a i'ulcrum, and a second angular movement in planes radial tothe sleeve.

The former of these movements is selective,

and such selective movement of the handle` about the sleeve as a center serves to position the transmitting block 98 in coperative rela-tion to one or the other of the printing sets. The handle is preferably provided at its upper end with a. knob 114, and a'pin 115 is extended rearwardly therefrom, see

Fig. 6, and passes loosely through a hole inl the depending shank 116 of a plate 117 provided with headed studs 118 which extend into and are slidable in the slot 7. The plate has an overhanging head 119 below which is pivotally mounted avspring-controlled locking lug 120 having a nger-pioce121,said lug being adapted to enter any one of the series of holes 9 in the head 6 to thereby lock the actuating handle in any one of its operative positions. A pointer 122 on the top of the locking plate travels along' in front of the index studs 8.

In Fig. 4, the actuating handle has been selectively moved about the sleeve 104 as a center into position opposite the index for night out, and the locking device for the handle has locked it in such msition from which it cannot be moved until an employee purposely withdraws the lug 120 into uuocking iosition.

The slots 10 on the front of the casing, see Fig. 1, are arranged opposite the path of movement of the pin 115, and correspond in position to the locking openings 9, so that when the handle is locked in any one of its selected positions it can be given a second movement on the fulcrum 1 13 by pushing in the knob 114. This second movement is the one which makes the record provided a card has been inserted in the card receiver, the selective movement having determined which one of the printing sets of the recording instrumentality is to operate.

Owing to the connections between the actuating handle and the shifting rack, the indices 8 are arranged in reverse order to the printing sets, as will be evident by a comparison of Figs. 5 and 16. That is, the morning in7 index is at the left of the sot of indices, while the morning in printing set is the right hand one of the six sets. When the actuating handle is moved to the right, the rack 87 is shifted to the lei't and vice versa. The lowerend of the handle is bifurcated to embrace the headed end of a rod 123 longitudinally movable in the sleevel 104 and having its rear end threaded to re-' ceive an adjustable collar 124 having ears to which at 125 one end of a link 126 is pivotally connected, the link being extended rearwardly land pivoted at 127, see Fig. 6, to a rocker plate 128 fulcrumed on the base plate at 129.

A short lin 130 is pivotally connected at its ends to t e rocker plate and to a short rearwardly extended arm 181, fast on an operating rook shaft 132 extended horizontally across the apparatus below the recording instrumentality, and having its bearings in the frame sides 40 and 41. The rocking of this shaft through suitable mitting devices effects the movement of the selected printing set into recording position; the locking of the printing members of such set so that there can be no rotative movement thereof during the making of the record; the movement ofthe platen to press the card toward the type and the ei'i'ectuation ot' the hammer blow to make the impression as will be described, and also to actuate an independent printing device which prints on the card a letter, word or other character corresponding to the particular day of the week on which the record is made.

Each of the bell-cranks 101, 102, has pivotally connected with it a depending and intervening trans preferably adjustable link 133, very clearly shown in Fig. 8, the lower ends of the links being deeply notched or hooked to embrace the actuating rock-shaft, and below said shaft each link is provided with an inwardly extended and lateral stud 134 which coperates with a cam 135 fast on the shaft.

Springs 136 connecting the bell-cranks and the tie-rod 45 serve to maintain the parts normally in the position shown in Fig. 8, and a strong s' ring 137 attached at one end to the baseate 39, and at its other end to a rearward y extended arm-138 on they main shaft, tends tomaintain it in the position shown.

Whenv the actuating handle is swung inward on its fulcrum 113, the described connections between said handle and the shaft 132 turn the latter in the direction of the arrow 139x, Fig. 8, thereby swinging the cams 135 downward and rearward to depress the studs 134 and hence'the links 133 act through the bell cranks 101, 102, and move I full forward movement of the'bar 99 has the rocker .bar 99 forward to operatively position the selected printing set.

been effected the lower ends vof the cams 135 -then engage the studs 134, `'said'lowerends being made as circular arcs, so that any con' tinued rotative movement of the main actuating shaft 132 will not have any. additional depressings actionv on the links. The spring 137 returns the shaft 132.tonormal position, and also operates to return the actuating handle to its normal position, best shown in Fig. 6.

When the selected printing set has been o eratively positioned it is necessary that t e hour and minute marking 1nembers[ thereof be locked from any angular movement when the record is being made, in order that a clear and sharp impression be marked,

stamped or otherwlse impressed upon the card. `To this end a pawl 139, fulcrumed at 140, -is arranged to coperate with vthe ratchet 21, Fig. 7, when the handle 112 is moved to make a record, the ratchet being thereby, locked fr`om rotation and acting through the transmitting shaft 56 and the intermediate gears to lock and aline simultaneously at their respective printing pointsY all of the minute marking members 60, the

latter in turn locking their respective hour marking members.

The foot of the pawl is offset and pivotally connected with a link 141 which at its lower end is jointed to an arm 142 mounted loosely on the shaft 132 and havingl a lug 143 normally resting on a shoulder 144 formed on a` segmental plate 145 fixed on shaft 132, a bowspring 146 fast atone end on said plate and at its other end connected with the lug 143 holding the latter against the shoulder in the position shown in Fig. 7, with the pawl 139 inoperative.

When the operating shaft 132 is turned in the direction of arrow 139X the spring 146 causes the lug to follow the shoulder 144 and thereby the'pawl is swung forward into engagement with the ratchet, locking the print# When the ing sets from angular movement, the springy yielding as the rotative movement of shaft 132 is continued and completed. At the same time an entirely independent auxiliary printing device is moved to printing position and locked, said device being designed to make upon the carda day record every time one of the main printing sets is operated.

,Upon a part 147 of the framework l fulcrum at 148, Fig. 7, an upturned arm 149 having a bearing for a shaft 150 on which isl fixed a typewheel 151 having on its periphery the letters M, T, W, etc., in-

dicating the days of the week, and so located that said wheel will print one of the day letters or characters in the vertical column headed Day on the card, see Fig. 2. Said shaft 15() has fast on it a ratchet 152, Fig. 5, and a gear 153 meshing with a gear 154 coaxial with the fulcrum 148, so that said gears -properly mesh at all times,

the wheel 151- being changed or shifted automaticallyby a periodically changingmechanism, to be referred tohereinafter, the shaft bearing on the carrier or arm4 149 being held normally against a stop 155 by a suitable spring 156, Fi 7.

g combined locking and positioning pawl 157, fulcrumed at 158, is arranged to be swung forward into en agement with the ratchet 152 to lock it an the printing wheel 151 fronrrotation and then to move said wheel forward against the ink-ribbon lto mark the card.

l A short rocker-arm 159 fast on the shaft 132 has pivoted to it a link or bar 160 connected with a bell-crank 161 pivotally mounted on pawl 157 and held by a spring 162 against a stop 163, Fig. 7, the spring being strong enough to cause the full forward `swing of the pawl when the main operating shaft is turned, but yielding when the wheel :151 reaches its lextreme forward position, and 'thereafter the'shaft movement is completed.

The gear rotatably mounted on the inner one of two parallel upright plates 165 xedly secured to the frame side 40, said gear driving a pinion -166 having rotatable with it a small gear 167 in mesh with thc gear 158 fast on the shaft'of an indicator drum V169, on the surface of which the names of the days of the week are printed, visible through the sight-opening 5, Fig. 1, and also Fig. 5, said opening being made in the plate 170 which lies flush with the shelf or jog 4 of the casing.V Y

Whatever day is shown by the indicator drum the corresponding initial or other mark will be so positioned on the printing wheel 151 as to print on the card when the apparatus is actuated by an employee, the visual indicator acting as a check for the benefit of the employee as he can always compare it with the record made on his card, and thus 154 meshes with a large gear 164 the ends of the make sure that the apparatus is properly set for the day.

Before describing the mechanism for efl'ecting automaticallyT thedaily ch ange l will describe means whereby the day shifting or changing may be effected manually, to set the apparatus in a convenient manner.' The ear 164 meshes withfa pinion 171 hist on a orizontal shaft 172 rotatably mounted in the plates 165, a disk 173 being ,fixedly mounted on the shaft adjacent a star orescapement wheel 17 4, Figs. 4, 13 and 22, loose on said shaft, said wheel having in practice a circular series of holes corresponding in number and arrangement tol a seriesof laterally extended pins 175 carried bythe disk 173, 1pins being shown in Fig. 13.- Seven pins are s own, but one, as 176, is longitudinally .movablethrou h the disk 173 into and out of any one of t e seven holes of the escapement wheel 174, the pin 176 being eccentrically and tixedly mounted on a grooved collar 17 7 slidable on shaft 172 and ressed against the disk 173 by a spring 178, igs. 4 and 22, the said disk and the pins forming a species of ratchet. When the spring is expanded, as it is normally, the movable pin 176 locks together the ratchet disk 173 and the escapement wheel 174 so that the latter revolves the shaft, but when the collar 177 is moved to t-he left, Figs; 4 and 22, the said pin will be withdrawn from the escapement wheel, so that the shaft and other parts may revolve independently of said wheel.

A short rock-shaft 179 `mounted in the 'frame side 40 and extended through the ad- 'acent plate 165 has on its outer end a crankandle 180, Fig. 4, and inside the plate 165 an arm 181 is fixed on the rock-shaft, cartying a spring-controlled pawl 182 adapted to engage a pin of the disk 17 3 and advance the latter one-seventh of a revolution for each operation of the handle 180. Before this manual actuation of the day shifting means is effected the pin-disk must be unlocked from the star wheel, and this is effected by la finger 183 coperatincf with the collar 177 and mounted on a lateraly swing ing arm 184 fulcrumed at 185, Fig. 13, and bearing against a side earn 186 on. therockshaft 179. When the latter is turned from right to left, Fig. 1.3, the cam first acts upon arm 184 to swing it and the collar 177 to the left, Fig. 4, compressing spring 178 and withdrawing the pin 176 from the escapemen't Wheel 174, and as said pin releases the wheel tle pawl 182 engages one of the pins of the pin disk 173 and gives the shaft 172 one-seventh of a revolution. After each of such movements of the shaft the spring 178 returns it and the other parte to normal po sition, so that by the roper number of sucy cessive operations of t ve. handle 180 the day Wheel 151 will be shifted to bring the proper letter thereon into operative position, and the corresponding day of the week will appear en the indicator, at the opening 5.

rlhe shaft. 172 is extended inward and near the center of the main frame has l'ast on it a bevel gear 187 which inesl'ies with a like `@fear 188, Figs. 17', 18 and 19, loose on a shaft 189 at right angles to shaft 172 and extended front-ward through a bearing on a plate 190 rigidly secured to and depending from the cross-brace 42. lf he hub of the gear 188 extends loosely through the bearing 191, see Fig. v19, vand has fixed upon its front end a controlling member, shown as a disk 192, between the bearing and a supporting Vbracket, 193, through which the shaft 189 extends,

vsaid disk having va radial notch 194 and a hole 195 adjacent the notch and between it .and the shaft. Y Y

revolution, so that the hole 195 is moved into position opposite one after another of the apertures 196.

A lateral arm 197 fast on the outer end of shaft 189 carries a rearwardly extended stop pin 198 movable in a circular path having the shaft as a center and with such radius that the pin can pass through the hole 195 in the controlling member 192 and through one of the apert-ures 196 whenever the hole 195 is in register therewith. Said arm preferably has i its end beveled, as shown in Fig. 4, to serve as a pointer and assist the employee in positioning the stop pin, for when the pointerlike arm"197- iscentered with relation to the 'of the shaft be effected, hence it will be seen llO that the angular position of the controlling member 1.92 determines the position which the arm 197 must have before the shaft can be moved, for otherwise'the pin 198 will engage the face of member 192 and stop longi tudinal movement ofthe shaft. The angular movement of the latter to properly position the stop pin 198 is effected manually, and by the first employee Who uses the apparatus on a given day, the arm 197 being outside the casing, as shown in Fig. 1.

A segmental extension 199 is formed on the actuating handle 112, so located that seine iso part of it will be opposite the outer end of shaft 189 in any one of the various selective ositions of the handle corresponding to the indices 8, so that the handle cannot be pushed inward about the pivot 113 unless the stop-pin 198 opposite the hole 195 in the controlling member l192. The latter is shown in Fig. 1 as positioned for a certain "dayof'the week, say Monda and the arm 197 .issupposed lto have een manually moved into proper relation thereto, so that at any time that day the actuatin handlel i 'i may be moved to make a record W ile such lis :relation continues, irrespective of the selective position of such handle. Consequently,

all records will be Monday records, and no others, and at. `midnight the controlling l member 192 will-be advanced automatically one step, by the periodically changing means,

'not yet described, so that the next morning the rst employee' to registermust turn the larm 197 forward to bring the pin 198 into proper position, and so on for each succeeding day of the Week, as a condition precedentl to registering, for if the handle cannot be' moved inward the apparatus cannot be operated to make any record.

The day printing member .151 is' I chan ed or advanced simultaneously Awith the c ange of the controllin member 192, and by thesame motive med-h ap ear. L

haft 189 has fast on it a collar 200, Fig.

19, engaged by a forked and pivotally mounted arm 201 controlled by a strong spring 202 which normally acts to maintain the shaft 189 andthe actuating handle 112 in their outward positions, Figs. 6 and 18, the movement of the handle to make a recordacting against the spring.

The ositloning of the cardlin the card receiver or the day of the week on which a record is made is governed and eifected by the manual angular movement of the shaft mounted von a plate 206 behind the plate 190 and carried thereby, the rack having rigidly attached to it a cross-head 207, shown centrally broken out in Fig. 17, and with its ends slidable in fixed vertical guideways 208 which form the sides of the vcard-receiver or guide.

A ratchet plate 209 is secured to oneside of the rack-bar 204 and coperates with a detent tooth 210 o n a swinglng carrier 211 controlled by a spring 212, see dotted lines Flg. 17 a transverse ledge 213 on the crossanism, as will Abetween the link and the bell-crank.

head 207 serving as a stop or abutment on which the bottom of the card rests when inmost horizontal day space thereon oppoi site the kprinting point of the recording-instrumentality. As the successive days of the` Week arrive the corresponding angular movements manually imparted to the shaft 189 will elevate the abnutment tol successively higher points, so that the proper day spaces on the card will be positioned opposite the printing point.

Each side 208 of the card receiver or guide is rearwardly curved at its upper end, at 214,

best seen in Fig. 18, so that when the platen is moved at the time a record is made t-he card will be bent or bulged, at the printing point, the curvature being oppositevr to that of the members of the operative printing set,

to prevent extra printing andinsure a clean record. -The open mouth 215 of the card receiver 'ares, as is usual in apparatus of this chaact-er, to facilitate the insertion of the car As Ythe abutment 213 is operatively positioned the detent tooth 210 snaps into holding engagement with the rack 209 and maintains the abutment in the set position until positively changed.

The platen 216, Figs. 5 and 6, slides back and forth in fixed bearings 217 erected on the cross-brace 42, and is pivotally connected by 4short links 218 with a rocker 219 fulcrumed at 220, said platen-rocker having at one end an arm 221, Fig. 5, extended rearwardly and pivotally connected with the upper end of a de ending link 222. v

eferring now to Fig. 8, the link is connected by a short radius-bar 223 with the stand or bracket 147 onthe frame, to guide said link, the foot of the latter resting on the arm 224 of a bell-crank 224, 225, fulcrumed at 226 to an ear on the base-plate 39, a spring 227 serving to yieldingly maintain contsct n adjustable link 228 connects the bell-crank arm 225 with a se ment plate 229 fulcrumed on the base-plate elow the main rock-shaft 132, ythe latter having fast on it an armv 23-1 l connected by link 230 with said segment plate, as clearly shown in Fig. 8. When rock-shaft 132 is turned in direction of arrow 139 the link 228 is moved rearwardly, and the bell-crank 224, 225 is rocked into the position shown in Fig. 9, the spring 227 causing link 222 to descend and move the lplaten 216 against the card, which is thereby ent or bulgedas referred to and pushed snugly against the usual ink-ribbon, (not shoWn,) and the type-wheels of the operative printing set, which wheels have been brought to the printing position by means described. This positioning of the platen by the action of spring 227 takes place while the bell-crank is moving to the osition slown in Fig. 9 and places the p aten in readiness to make the impression by a hamM mer-blow. v

The tip or point 232 of the bell-^crank arm 225 coperates with a cam-face 233 on acamplate 234 pivoted to swing laterally between ears 235 on a hammer 236 fulcrumed horizontally at 237 on a rigid stand or bracket 238, the hammer being ada )ted to strike a stud 239 on the link 222. n the opposite side of the stand 233 a segmental plate 240 is fulcrumed concentrically with the hammer, and held by a spring 241 against a fixed stop 242 under normal conditions, the edge of the plate being recessed at 243 to receive a lug 244 projecting from the adjacent face of the hammer.v When the bell-crank is rocked as described the point 232 cooperates with the cam-face 233 and swings upward the camplate 234 and the hammer 236 as a unit, on the pivot 237, the lug 244 at the same time acting upon the plate 240 to raise it and stretch spring 241, allas shown in Fig. 9, while the platen is operatively positioned by spring 227 and intervening connections. When the link 228 has nearly com leted its l:pin 261 extended loosely working stroke the point 232 slips r own and off the cam-face 233, releasing the hammer, which is brought down by the spring 241 and strikes a sharp, quick blow on the stud 239. This hammer-blow communicated through the link 222 to the platen causes the record upon the card" to be printed or stamped with much greater clearness than could be effected by ressure alone. When the hammer is nearly down the segment 240 engages the stop 242 and the hammer finishes the operative stroke alone, so that when some of the partsare returned to normal position the spring 241 will not be stretched again.

The bell-crank arm 225 is beveled at one edge, at 245, and the farther side of the plate 234 is oppositely beveled at 246, so that as the-'bell-crank comes back to the position shown in Fig. 8 the beveled surfaces 245, l 246 Wipe over each other, swinging the plate I 234 to the right, Fig. 4, so that the point 232 can pass, after which plate 234 resumes its i normal position, assisted by a light spring 247, vwit the cam-face 233 back of the point 232.

The periodically changing means for effecting automatically the daily shift orI chan e of the controlling member 192 will now e described, together with a safety shifting device for morning and afternoon hours. A second clock-spring motor, pro vided with a master gear 248, see dotted circles Fig. 7, is preferably connected, by a pinion 249, with the master gear 2.0 of the previously mentioned motor, in order that the two motors will work together, the second motor being wound by the application of a hey to the outer end of its` spindle 250. 'lhe master gear 243 meshes with a gear 251 fast on a spindle 252 rotatably mounted in the plates 165, Fig. 4, said spindle having fast upon it a disk 253 provided with diametrically opposite notches 254, Fig. l4, and a pinion also fast on the spindle meshes with a gear loose on a spindle 257. Said vspindle has fixedly mounted upon it a tlneetoothed gear 258, which copciatcs with the starwheel or escapement 174 to alternately lock and advance it, as will be clear from an inspection of Fig. ment is shown as locked. rlhe gear 256 is inserted between the hubs of a gear' 255.1', sec Fig. 21, and aseven-toothed ratchet 260, both of which are fixedly secured tothe spindle 257, said ratchet having a laterally extended into a segmental slot 262 in the loose gear 256, one end of a bow-spring 263 being attached to said pin. The other end of the spring is secured to a pin 264 on the gear 256, so that as the gear is rotated in the direction of arrow 265, Fig.

14, the spring will be tightened, as the ratchet 260 is held from rotation by a detent 13, vwherein said escape- El (l pawl 266 until the toe 267' of said pawl drops into one of the notches 254 of the disk 253. Said pawl is fulcrumed at 268 and a spring 269 acts to Withdraw the pawl and thereby release the ratchet each time a notch 254 is moved op osite the toe 267. Now when the ratchet is ocked the spring 263 is gradually tightened as the gear 256 advances, but when the toe 267 slips into one of the notches 254 the bow-spring expands quickly and advances the ratchet 260 one-seventh of a revolution, the pin 261 traveling in the slot 262, the periphery of the disk 253 acting upon the pawl-toe to again cause the paWl to engage and lock the ratchet.

The train of gearing is so proportioned that the pawl releases the ratchet at midnight and after mid-day, so that there are two advances of the spindle 257 each twenty-four hours, and the three-toothed gear 258 is moved forward by said advances, the one at noon bringing one of the 1teeth into position to operate the escapement 174 and the midnight advance acting to advance the escapement one step, to thereby effect automatically the daily change orrshift in the controlling member 19 It' will be remembered that the rotative movement of shaft 172 not only eifects this change, but it also operates to effect automatically the daily change or shift of the and the spindle 257 llO 

